Dear restaurant owners:We ALL hate the QR code menu.

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@lydiaconwell @cmconseils
️ A QR code that takes one to an alternative, more honest copy of the menu, with identical aesthetic.

[realglob@mastodon.social]

@mkoek @otte_homan @lydiaconwell @cmconseils wait a minute since most of them are static just take a picture of one and then wait for someone to sit there and then scan the code, join their menu, and put them into crippling debt. Funny pranks to do to your worst enemy.

[dukeduke@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils I've never even heard of such an abomination before now. I've also never scanned a QR code, so I guess I'd go hungry if faced with this as my only option. 🤬

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@hellomiakoda @lydiaconwell@todon.nl @cmconseils oh so THAT'S the "secret menu"!

[rodolforg@mastodon.online]

@cmconseils Oh, I thought this hate I share was Brasil only.

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@caboolture @cmconseils less hygenic! Phone screens are full of germs!

[caffeinatedbookdragon@nerdculture.de]

@cmconseils When we did our relaunch, my location had qr codes on stickers in the bowling area & concessions lobby. They worked fine for the kitchen, but the bar had no clue where the drinks were going or who ordered them, and if they wanted popcorn or cokes from the concessions, that never printed out anywhere. So we would have to get them to open up their order so we could see what they'd pay for, write it down, and go get it.

Our system was terrible; we hated it because we knew most were using it just to avoid tipping the bartender or us servers (and some folks don't tip anyway, so it was like "whatever"). The owners kept saying they were fixing them for months, but when the kids just started peeling the QR stickers off and playing with them, managers didn't replace them anymore & they all disappeared in a couple weeks. Nobody complained, not even the customers because they were tired of it taking twice as long to get their orders.

[zetasyanthis@dragon.style]

@cmconseils I was at the airport on Friday and tried one of the QR code menus. Ended up giving up since it was a total failure of a website and went somewhere else.

[helenpdesigns@mstdn.plus]

@cmconseils agreed with that I hate trying to scan QR codes with my new expensive phone for some reason it seems to just take a photo rather than scan it properly

[culturednyc@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils

all of us

[robot@wetdry.world]

@cmconseils I actually like the qr menus, at least as an option (important part: "as an option"), if its an actual page on the restaurants actual website that is just an actual menu.

[felichsdakatze@mastodon.social]

@timsk @cmconseils

Living in a country where the dominant language is not my own, most often the codes open a webpage which I can easily translate, which is very useful when there are choices and options of the same dish.

As soon as a code takes me to an app install, suddenly my phone has "issues" and we go back to staff service.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@cmconseils

The requirement to give up your privacy to buy a coffee is here.

The requirement to share your personal information with a restaurant before you order is here.

The requirement to use a loyalty card to buy a smoothie at McDonald's instead of cash is here.

Ubiquitous Computing becomes Ubiquitous Surveillance.

QR codes are a data brokers' dream.

[lrt_writes@mstdn.party]

@cmconseils not just the QR code menu, but also the one that must be downloaded to view...so annoying

[carstenfranke@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis took decisive action when their restaurant switched to qr codes

Walker Art Center cuts ties with Cardamom after restaurant launches QR code ordering, eliminates staff

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis says it is terminating its relationship with Cardamom restaurant after its management group decided to replace staff positions with QR codes.

(www.cbsnews.com)

[print@theforkiverse.com]

@cmconseils

Nope. Best invention

Don't have to go line up and order/ pay at the counter. Particularly when you have kids unattended.

Can see pictures of the food

Can eat with another family and pay for just what YOU ordered.
(Friend love splitting bill 50/50 despite having wine and entrees and desert when we didn't)

Don't have to have a waiter keep coming over to see if you are ready to order, when you have not decided yet because too busy talking

Or having to wait for ages for a waiter

[spiegelmama@infosec.exchange]

@robot I would still rather have a bare URL. I'll type that in or navigate to it if you just tell me where it is. I will not be the one getting hijacked - no menu, no order from me.
@cmconseils

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@DukeDuke @cmconseils It started becoming a thing during early Covid when restaurants were allowed to re-open, albeit at some limited capacity, perhaps entirely outdoors. Easier to tell people to scan the QR code than disinfect the menus between uses, I guess.

[robot@wetdry.world]

@spiegelmama @cmconseils I often use a dedicated barcode app for qr codes, so I can preview and save the link for later (it has a history page) and it shows up in my share sheet.

QR hijacking, while possible is overblown imo

I do not like link shorteners on qr codes tho, those go in the bin (metaphorically)

[asmaloney@fosstodon.org]

@Uair @cmconseils As a human without a mobile phone, I am starting to run into this... I walked away from an airport restaurant because they only had the QR thingy.

"I don't have a mobile, can you give me a real menu?"

They look at me like I'm an alien and shrug. "Nope". (I'm sure they had them, they were just being lazy.)

So I went to a different massively-overpriced restaurant!